BALANCE OF POWER, DID YESTERDAY'S ELECTION SHIFT AMERICA TO THE LEFT, TO THE RIGHT, OR SOMEWHERE ELSE. AND DEMOLITION DEBACLE. THEY SAY IT'S LONG TIME OVERDUE FOR SOMEONE TO CLEAN UP THE MESS OVER A PROJECT THAT WENT VERY WRONG. WE TALK ABOUT THE ABANDONED HOME PROBLEM, IT'S MASSIVE! Ruth: AND THE CITY'S PROGRESS IN MAKING IT BETTER HAS BEEN, WELL, SLOW! Devin: LOCAL 4 LOOKS INTO A CASE OF MISMANAGED BLIGHT, A WRONGLY DEMOLISHED HOME AND THE PROBLEMS THE CITY LEFT BEHIND. Ruth: AND BUSINESS EDITOR ROD MELONI HAS THE STORY FROM DETROIT. Rod: THE STATE AND EVEN MAYOR BING AND THE EMERGENCY MANAGER SAY THAT GETTING RID OF BLIGHT, THIS KIND OF A MESS, NEEDS TO BE TAKEN CARE OF, BUT GUESS WHAT? IT'S NOT, AT LEAST ON THIS BLOCK. THIS OVERGROWN JUNK PILE INSIDE AN ABANDONED HOME'S BASEMENT IS NOTHING UNUSUAL, BUT THIS ONE IS BECAUSE OF A DISASTROUS MIX-UP. SHE AND HER DAUGHTER LIVED IN THIS HOME NEXT DOOR TO THE HOLE. THEY KEEP THEIR HOME UP, A NEW CONCRETE DRIVEWAY AND THE GRASS IS CUT AND A CHAIN-LINK FENCE KEEP THE FIVE CHILDREN WHO LIVE HERE AS SAFE AS THEY CAN BE. WE LIKE TO KEEP THE YARDS TOGETHER AND CLEAN UP THE NEIGHBORHOOD. AND IT'S HARD TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT, AND IT'S VERY HAZARDOUS TO THE KIDS. Rod: THE CITY ADMITTED THE HOUSE IT DEMOLISHED WAS RAZED MISTAKENLY. THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO DO A HOUSE DOWN THE STREET, WHICH THEY DID. I'M GLAD IT'S GONE BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT IT TO CATCH FIRE. BUT NOW IT'S THREE YEARS LATER, AND I'M STILL UPSET. IT'S CRAZY! Rod: SHE COULDN'T FINISH PAINTING HER HOUSE BECAUSE SHE COULDN'T SAFELY PLACE THE LADDER. DUMPERS ARE FILLING UP THE HOLE. SHE HAS ASKED THE CITY TO FIX THIS MESS, TO NO AVAIL! IT'S NOT LIKE I'M BEHIND IN MY TAXES. THEY'RE PAID FOR THE YEAR, ZERO BALANCE. I DON'T HAVE ANY AREARAGE. THIS IS WHAT I HAVE TO LIVE WITH. Rod: LATE THIS AFTERNOON, WE GOT GOOD NEWS FOR JANEANE AND HER FAMILY. IT IS A CITY OF DETROIT ISSUE AND THEY HAVE PROMISED TO FIX THIS IN THE NEXT 48 HOURS. THEY HAVEN'T SAID HOW, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING WE'LL BE WATCHING FOR IN THE NEXT COUPLE

DETROIT -

A three-year-old mistake continues to haunt a Detroit neighborhood.

An overgrown junk pile inside an abandoned home's old basement is nothing unusual in the city of Detroit.

However, this one is tough because of a disastrous mix-up nearly three years ago.

Jeannine Cady-Miller and her daughter Deedra live in a home on Moran Street right next-door to the hole. They keep it up. There is a new concrete driveway, the grass gets cut and a chain-link fence keeps the five small children who live nearby about as safe as they can be.

"We like to keep yards and stuff together. We like to clean up as much of the neighborhood as possible and it's hard to do anything about it, and it's very dangerous for the kids," Deedra Miller said.

The Millers say the city admitted to them that the house it demolished here was razed by mistake. They were supposed to demolish a vacant house down the street, which they did.

"I was glad because it was gone because I didn't want it to catch fire because of all the abandoned houses, but now it is three years later and it's crazy,"Jeannine Cady-Miller said.

Cady-Miller says she couldn't finish painting her own house because she couldn't safely set up a ladder. The area now is a well-known dumping spot but illegal dumpers aren't putting dirt in the dangerous hole, which is something Cady-Miller would appreciate.

She says she has repeatedly asked the city of Detroit to fix this mess and haul away the old concrete and bricks. She's had no success.

"It's not like I'm behind on my taxes. My taxes are paid in full, zero balance, no arrearages. But this is what I've got to live with," Cady-Miller said.

Local 4 went to work in this, speaking with the state which now runs Detroit's landbank and the city.

This is a city of Detroit mix-up. The city's blight-busting unit now has promised to fix the mess on Moran Street within the next 48 hours.

Local 4 will be watching to see if that happens.

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